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It has emerged that the four victims of Epe farm kidnap, who were released weekend, were made to hold prayer sessions for the success of their abductors’ kidnapping business. Also, the negotiator, whose fiancée was the only female among the victims, was told to marry her or they would kidnap her again in their next […]
The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) at the weekend decried the ruinous activities of Fulani herdsmen in the South-west of the country, warning that except the federal government reined in the nomadic cattle rearers, the food security of the region would be undermined. While stating that the zone’s farmers were no longer able to work at […]
A rice farmer at Ezinator- Ohofia, Oduma in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Simon Chukwu, has relived his ugly experiences in the hands of Fulani herdsmen during the last Christmas season, explaining that he escaped death through the skin of the teeth. Chukwu said he was harvesting rice in his farm when […]
An unidentified policemen, Monday, sustained gunshot injuries during a gun battle between some herdsmen and a team of policemen from the Ughelli Area Command, Delta State. Also the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Delta Safe, yesterday, said its troops have killed two notorious militants in a shootout along the Obama Flow […]
An Akure Chief Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, sentenced a 96-year-old man, Bayode Ojo, and his son, Ade, to two months imprisonment over alleged malicious damage of crops valued at N500,000. According to the prosecution, the convicts and others at large committed the offence at Awule village in Akure Magisterial District on December 27, 2014. The charge […]
At least 18 farmers are believed to have been hacked to death by unknown assailants at Dan-anacha in Gassol local government area of Taraba in the early hours of Sunday. The killings are one of the series of bloody attacks in the state. Most of the farmers were killed on their farms. David Misal, the […]
The Federal Government and farmers, under the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, also called West African Farmers Network, WAFN, yesterday, resolved to proffer solution to incessant herdsmen/farmers clash in the sub-region. This was made known during a courtesy visit by WAFN delegation led by its President, Mamadou Cissokho, to the Minister of Agriculture […]
Cattle rustlers have killed four people in Niger State, leaving several others injured and no fewer than 700 cattle and unspecified numbers of goats stolen. The incidence took place in Gbaka village, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the rustlers used guns, cutlasses, bows and arrows. They were said to […]